Lets keep Weiner in the privates sector

By Ron Hart | The Hart Beat

Published: Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 04:47 PM.

Anthony
Weiner
clearly loved cameras, especially cell phone cameras, entirely too much. In his spare time he enjoyed shoving his cell phone down his pants and taking pictures. Then, and here is where it gets weird, he would send them to random women online: an exotic dancer, an unwed mother, and a blackjack dealer — or, as they call it in
Queens
, the "circle of life."

At first Weiner said his Twitter account had been hacked and that he did not send the pictures, but he was going to look into it and would get back to us with his findings. He tried to elevate himself to the highest honor a Democrat can bestow upon himself: victimhood. Borrowing a line from his mentor,
Bill
Clinton
, Weiner's defense was “I did not have text-ual relations with that woman.”

In fairness to Weiner, this could all have been a misunderstanding. He was told during his briefing as a freshman House member that Congressmen could mail their packages to people for free.

Weiner is polling well. He is even second in the race now to succeed Mayor Bloomberg. He has $4.3 mil in campaign money, and public matching funds could add $1.5 mil to his creepy coffers. He will be formidable. Only in politics can a disgraced congressman get to keep that kind of money.

Even more charming is the fact that three of his fund-raising donors, such solid citizens all, have been charged with felonies ranging from bribing a state senator to running a Ponzi scheme. Only in liberal, Northern, big-city politics can such a candidate with so much baggage even think about a comeback. Maybe fellow New Yorker, Rep. Charlie Rangel, can advise him.

When politicians like Weiner with no experience outside of government come up through the ranks on either side, we should be eternally suspicious. Once de-frocked, they find little demand in the private sector (especially demand for someone who got in trouble with his own private sector); they have no marketable skills.

I guess Weiner could be a greeter at Walmart, but no customers want to see someone that happy to see them.

It's all but official. The New York Times Magazine did a splashy piece on AnthonyWeiner, which means he is running for mayor of New York.

His brother even supplied a ringing endorsement in the 8,300-word Sunday article: "There was definitely a douchiness about him I don’t see any more.”

And if we know anything about New York politics, being less “douchie” than your opponent means victory — as long as the union thugs back you.

Weiner was asked the hard questions about what he learned in the political time-out chair: "Where do you stand on gun control?" "Can New Yorkers be trusted to buy 16-ounce Cokes or only 15 ounces?" "Do you now know the subtle difference between the 'reply' and 'reply all' buttons?”

In the modus operandi of a man plotting his comeback, the article in the New York Times was fed to a compliant, liberal media, public relations partner.

Weiner was a high-level Democratic congressman whose self-inflicted, epic fall from grace was legendary. He and the enchanting and demure Debbie Wasserman Schultz were the media faces of the Democrats on issues. When the humidity was too high in Miami for the TV cameras to get a wide shot of WassermanSchultz’s hair, Weiner would be called upon to be the spew monkey of DNC talking points.

AnthonyWeiner clearly loved cameras, especially cell phone cameras, entirely too much. In his spare time he enjoyed shoving his cell phone down his pants and taking pictures. Then, and here is where it gets weird, he would send them to random women online: an exotic dancer, an unwed mother, and a blackjack dealer — or, as they call it in Queens, the "circle of life."

At first Weiner said his Twitter account had been hacked and that he did not send the pictures, but he was going to look into it and would get back to us with his findings. He tried to elevate himself to the highest honor a Democrat can bestow upon himself: victimhood. Borrowing a line from his mentor, BillClinton, Weiner's defense was “I did not have text-ual relations with that woman.”

In fairness to Weiner, this could all have been a misunderstanding. He was told during his briefing as a freshman House member that Congressmen could mail their packages to people for free.

Weiner is polling well. He is even second in the race now to succeed Mayor Bloomberg. He has $4.3 mil in campaign money, and public matching funds could add $1.5 mil to his creepy coffers. He will be formidable. Only in politics can a disgraced congressman get to keep that kind of money.

Even more charming is the fact that three of his fund-raising donors, such solid citizens all, have been charged with felonies ranging from bribing a state senator to running a Ponzi scheme. Only in liberal, Northern, big-city politics can such a candidate with so much baggage even think about a comeback. Maybe fellow New Yorker, Rep. Charlie Rangel, can advise him.

When politicians like Weiner with no experience outside of government come up through the ranks on either side, we should be eternally suspicious. Once de-frocked, they find little demand in the private sector (especially demand for someone who got in trouble with his own private sector); they have no marketable skills.

I guess Weiner could be a greeter at Walmart, but no customers want to see someone that happy to see them.

If he runs for mayor, it will be a high stakes, “double or nothing” (which is also his approach to underpants) endeavor. Like most comebacks of disgraced politicians — and battle of the bands events — the real loser is the audience.

RonHart, a libertarian syndicated op-ed humorist, award-winning author and TV/radio commentator can be reached at Ron@RonaldHart.com or visit www.RonaldHart.com.

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